Find me another series where witches on broomsticks dogfight mecha; where super robot King Lear fights spirit summon Macbeth in a contest of Shakespearean tragedies… with Shakespeare participating. From a literary perspective, I’ve always been told: keep your audience in mind. But since I’m not a professional, this is only a partially-accepted piece of advice. [...]
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I recently re-read Kare Kano, for the 4th time in my life — all 21 volumes of it. I remembered the plotline. I remembered the characters. Yet I couldn’t help but feel mesmerized once more. It shocked me that every time I read this beloved series, I encountered a different experience, felt a different emotion [...]
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Took me a long time to return here. I simply didn’t feel good each time I looked upon that dashboard. It wasn’t that I regretted stopping blogging (could be in denial though; I could never tell with myself <_<). But I certainly did recognize the fact that as an ‘animesque blog’, this place had ran [...]
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Well we’ve finished translating 1st volume and it’s a summer anime, so here’s the review! Sikorsky really isn’t the best illustrator, but he gets better. I wasn’t particularly impressed by Campione! when my friend first dragged me onto the project, its first chapter opening up like a typical harem romance-comedy and the second featuring a [...]
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Tyranny may flourish under the wisdom of one. — Yet unrestrained, it takes but another to ruin the works of all. Democracy may ensure a balanced hand. — Yet dissociated, it concedes to the desires of the now and many. Thus, the Philosopher King shall be united with the Representative Republic. — Grant the liege [...]
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I finally brought up enough courage to log in again… It’s been a while, and I deeply apologize for those who still follow me for my sudden death and long-time disappearance. Some life issues happened, plus I was a little… traumatized (too strong) by a certain experience with anibloggers during Otakon and wanted nothing to [...]
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Somehow, I tend go missing for a while and then finish editing posts in batches xD [dezeru] In many ways, Moshidora could be seen as a fictionalized, dramatized management textbook that started off with pure technicality and eventually brought audience sympathy to the screen. Many of its characters were never given proper depth, and for [...]
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Cultural shock always interests me— assuming I’m not the one experiencing it xD Experiencing the different mannerisms of faraway cultures can be bewildering, especially when one has no clue how to interpret or respond to what is obviously an extremely serious gesture. Ikoku Meiro comes as one of the only anime I’ve seen which shows [...]
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When I told my friend I was going to buy a commercial OELVN to check it out, the response was “Why would you do that!?” Even western fans of Japanese visual novels often frown upon the OELVN (Original English Language Visual Novel) community. Production qualities are always a concern, as the amateur teams formed by [...]
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Menma, always there yet out of sight… [Ayazaka] Ever wondered what AnoHana would be like if we, the audience, couldn’t see Menma either? Would we believe Jinta from the start? Would we, like the rest of the gang, feel that he was hallucinating, stuck in the past, and slightly out of his mind? It certainly [...]
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